Many of our high school students need to work on monitoring their tone of voice. Enter, our free high school tone of voice PDF for your social-skills lessons!
Teaching Tone of Voice to High School Students
Tone of Voice carries an incredible amount of emotional clues. Using Everyday Speech’s video examples and visual diagrams that track the intonation (the high and low pitches) of various phrases, students will learn to capture the feelings that are carried through the voice to help them detect sarcasm, humor, level of interest, and emotional states.
Lesson Plan – Using Your Free Tone of Voice PDF for High School Students
1. Make Use of Simple Tools
Talk about the basics of how our voices might sound when we experience different feelings. I like to draw out how my voice rises or falls and match it to sample sentences. Use whatever you have around you, paper, whiteboard, or anything that’s available!
2. Watch our Emotion ID Video (click here for a free 30-day trial)
This video series uses graphics on screen to break down tone of voice with pitch diagrams which are super effective visuals to help students see this concept in a concrete way! It also reviews facial expressions in a step-by-step approach to really elevate your social skills lessons to the next level!
3. Use Our Free Tone of Voice PDF
Our free high school tone of voice material is a worksheet called “Monitoring Your Tone of Voice”. Download, print, and have your student complete this worksheet by applying what they’ve learned in your tone of voice lesson. Students are given four practice scenarios and two bonus questions to go over with you!
Sample High School Tone of Voice Video:
This sample tone of voice video is a great enhancement to this lesson! Everyday Speech provides real-life scenarios as age-appropriate actors model new skills. We offer a 30-day free trial for all of our social skills materials!
Related Blog Posts:
Social Skill: Nonverbal Communication
